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man $100. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Thursday that Cameron Cayaban pleaded guilty to harassing,
harming or pursuing an endangered species after slapping a Hawaiian monk seal in March. His lawyer says Cayaban was overcome when he saw the seal, ran up to the
endangered animal and touched it. (AP)
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the newest oily treat that debuted at
Chicken Charlie’s food stand about two
weeks ago: fried Kool-Aid. Each year, Charlie Boghosian
adds new items to his food stand’s menu. This year, it’s
fried Kool-Aid. He uses flour, water and Kool-Aid powder
to make the batter. (AP)
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this week. The five-day live silent coverage of a cruise
ship plying the scenic coast of Norway was watched by
an astounding 2.5 million viewers — half the country’s
population — according to public broadcaster NRK. (AP)

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Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton, on Thursday in Glastonbury, England. Music fans had to brave rain
Thursday at the five-day festival, which began Wednesday and features U2, Coldplay and Beyonce. (GET T Y )

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As the FBI chased leads on two
continents, Boston mob boss James
“Whitey” Bulger lived nearly all of
his 16 years on the lam in this quiet
seaside city, passing himself off as
just another elderly retiree, albeit
one who kept a .357 Magnum and
more than 100 rounds of ammunition in his modest apartment.
Bulger — the FBI’s most-wanted man and a feared underworld
figure linked to 19 murders — was
captured Wednesday after one of
the biggest manhunts in U.S. history. His undoing may have been his
impeccably groomed girlfriend.
Earlier this week, after years of
frustration, the FBI put out a series
of daytime TV announcements with
photos of Bulger’s blond-haired livein companion, Catherine Greig.
The announcements pointed out
that Greig was known to frequent
beauty salons and have her teeth
cleaned once a month.

Two days later, the campaign
produced a tip that led agents to
the two-bedroom apartment three
blocks from the Pacific Ocean where
Bulger, 81, and Greig, 60, lived,
authorities said. The FBI would not
give any details about the tip.
The boss of South Boston’s
vicious Winter Hill Gang — a man
who authorities say would not hesitate to shoot someone between the
eyes — was lured outside the building and captured without resis-

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Bulger in 1995 that he was
about to be indicted. (AP)

tance. Greig was also arrested.
Neighbors were stunned to learn
they had been living in the same
building as the man who was the
model for Jack Nicholson’s ruthless crime boss in the 2006 Martin Scorsese movie
“The Departed.”
On Thursday
afternoon, Bulger
appeared with his
girlfriend in federal court in Los
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James Bulger’s ordered returned
girlfriend, lived to Massachusetts
with Bulger in
to face charges
California. She
after he waived
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fugitive.
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investigators
thought Bulger was probably moving around constantly while on the
run, Massachusetts state police
Detective Lt. Stephen Johnson said
he wasn’t surprised that Bulger and
Greig stayed put in California.
“It’s very hard to be living on
the lam, and when you’re that age,
you probably want to enjoy it,” he
said. (AP)

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pages of a new graphic novel that aims to shed more light — with a bit of creative license — on the event. Written by
retired U.S. Marine Capt. Dale Dye and Julia Dye, the 88-page hardcover “Code Word: Geronimo” focuses on those who
planned, conducted and executed the raid. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the American Veterans Center. (AP)

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Talks at White House
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor pulled
out of debt-reduction talks with the White
House on Thursday, saying the effort has
reached an impasse over taxes that can
be resolved only by President Obama and
House Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio.
(THE WASHINGTON POST)

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FTC to Issue Subpoenas
In Google Antitrust Probe
A published report says the Federal
Trade Commission are preparing to
issue subpoenas to Google and other
companies for a broad antitrust probe
into the Internet search leader’s business practices. The FTC is looking into
whether Google abuses its dominance
of Internet search to extend its influence into other lucrative online markets. (AP)
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fourth-largest city, Minot, worsened
Thursday, as accelerated releases from
an upstream dam into the Souris River
led officials to recommend more evacuations and close a major bridge. As many
as 10,000 residents were evacuated on
Wednesday. (AP)

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that depend on oil imports said
Thursday they will release and sell
60 million barrels of crude from
emergency stocks in an effort to
ease the strain high oil prices are
putting on the global economy.
The release by the International Energy Agency, a group of more
than two dozen countries, covers
only what the world uses roughly

every 16 hours. But it was enough
to send oil prices lower, at least for
the moment.
In addition to helping the struggling economies of the U.S. and
Europe, analysts said the move was
meant as a rebuke to OPEC, which
has refused to increase oil production to bring down prices.
It will be the largest sale of
crude ever from world strategic
reserves and only the third since
the IEA was formed in 1974 after
the Arab oil embargo. The IEA
released oil in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina, and in 1990 and 1991
after Iraq invaded Kuwait.
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The deduction motorists who use
their personal vehicles for business will be able to take per mile
from their taxable income starting July 1, up about 4 cents from
the first six months of 2011, the IRS
announced on Thursday. (AP)

reserves in the U.S. Refiners who
turn crude into gasoline will be able
to bid on the extra oil and have it
shipped to them from the salt caverns along the Gulf Coast.
The IEA said high oil demand
and shortfalls of oil production

caused by unrest in the Middle
East and North Africa threatened
to “undermine the fragile global
economic recovery.”
The uprising in Libya has taken
1.5 million barrels of oil per day off
of the market — half a million barrels less than will be released each
day by the IEA. The price of oil rose
to nearly $114 per barrel at the end
of April, a level not seen since the
summer of 2008.
Since then, however, oil prices
had fallen considerably, and analysts questioned how much relief
the move would provide the economy, and for how long. CHRIS K AHN

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temperature of dinosaurs by studying
their teeth, which reflect body temperature. The study, reported Thursday in the journal Science, found the
Brachiosaurus had a temperature of
about 100.8 F and the smaller Camarasaurus had a temperature of about
98.3 F. (AP)

Europe Embraces Obama’s Afghan Plan
Allies outline goals
for withdrawals as
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spent Thursday in eastern Afghanistan, hoping to reassure local officials, tribal elders and shopkeepers
that President Obama’s announced
troop withdrawal “does not mean
the United States is abandoning
Afghanistan.”
“For nine years, the international community has been in front.
Beginning now and over the next
three years, the Afghan people will
be in front,” Eikenberry told elders

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in the Mohmand Dara District of
eastern Nangarhar province.
Though Afghan police and
soldiers are expected to take full
responsibility for security in the
country by 2014, he said, “if you
still want our support, we will still
be here to help.”
America’s European allies welcomed the drawdown announcement
and also made withdrawal promises
Thursday. But the reaction of Afghan
President Hamid Karzai’s political
opponents and the Taliban ranged
from skepticism to disdain.
President Nicolas Sarkozy said
the approximately 4,000 French
troops in Afghanistan would
engage in a “phased withdrawal”
mirroring that of the U.S.

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The number of U.S. troops that may
be withdrawn from Afghanistan
by next summer, including 10,000
by the end of this year, President
Obama said Wednesday. About
70,000 will remain there. (AP)

Britain, with more than 10,000
troops in Afghanistan, has said it
will not be engaged in combat there
by 2015. In a statement Thursday,
Prime Minister David Cameron
said that “where conditions on the
ground allow, it is right that we
bring troops home sooner.”
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Guido Westerwelle praised the
U.S. plan and said Germany hoped
to begin withdrawing its 5,000
troops in Afghanistan by the end
of the year.
In Kabul, Abdullah Abdullah, a
political opponent of Karzai’s and
former foreign minister, voiced concern over the government’s ability
to stave off extremist groups.
“Our concern is that in the coming few years, [with] less resources, less troops available, we might
miss further opportunities,” Abdullah said.
The Taliban dismissed Obama’s
speech as symbolic, saying “our
armed struggle will increase from
day to day” until the coalition is
gone. (THE WASHINGTON POST )

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The Palestinians are ready to ease their
demand for a freeze on Israeli settlement
construction to renew peace talks, a top
official said Thursday on condition of
anonymity. The Palestinians will resume
talks if Israel accepts President Obama’s
proposal to base negotiations on a broad
Israeli withdrawal from lands captured in
the 1967 war, the official said. (AP)
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Four bombs ripped through Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad
Thursday evening, killing at least
40 people and injuring 82 others
in the worst violence the capital
has seen in months, Iraqi officials
said. An American civilian aid specialist working to improve education in Iraq was killed in a separate attack.
The first three bombs went off
shortly after 7 p.m. One targeted
a Shiite mosque, another exploded outside a market, and the third
went off inside the market, police
said. There was no immediate claim
of responsibility.
The violence underscored the
fragile nature of the security gains
in Iraq at a time when U.S. forces
are preparing to withdraw by the
end of this year. (AP)

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Desmond Tutu, left, and a youth during an event in Cape Town, South Africa, to raise awareness about HIV prevention and to
urge children to make safe, healthy choices. Obama is traveling with several family members, including daughters Malia and
Sasha, on a weeklong goodwill trip to South Africa and Botswana. They are scheduled to return to Washington on Monday.

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Senegalese President Abdoulaye
Wade agreed Thursday to cancel a
proposed change
to the constitution
that would have
Wade
created the post of
vice president and
paved the way for his son to take power,
amid massive protests that threatened
to derail a country known as one of the
most stable in the region. (AP)

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Just about every intern in Washington has to get
to know Metro. But most of them don’t need to
learn it nearly as well as the 30 students who’ve
landed 13-week gigs with the transportation
agency this summer.
“When I say I work at Metro, other
interns say, ‘What do you mean?
The Metro Metro?” says Jonathan
Heppen, a 21-year-old who’s embedded with the government relations
team for a second year.
Perhaps t hey ’re conf used
because they don’t realize that
Metro needs more personnel than
just drivers. Metro interns are
spread out over 11 departments,
and they learn about every aspect

of the people-moving business. “We
have a lot of professions here,” says
intern program manager Andrea
Johnson, adding that the summer
program is structured to create a
pipeline for future employees.
One of those might be Jefferson King, a grad student at Virginia Tech who’s working with Bus
Technology Systems Support, helping iron out the kinks in programs
like NextBus and Google Transit.

“It seemed like an opportunity to
see how transit really works,” says
King, a self-described “avid public transportation user” wherever he is.
King is originally from Boston, which has one
of the cheapest subway systems in the
country, so the fares
here gave him sticker shock. But it helps
that the main perk
of the internships —
other than the fact
that they’re paid —
is that they come with an all-youcan-ride Metro pass. “We still have
to pay for parking, though,” says
Heppen, who admits he drives into
work some days rather than deal
with taking a bus to Grosvenor and
hopping on the Red Line.
It’s by riding the roads and
rails, however, that they can put
their newfound knowledge to
use. Because 22-year-old Elizabeth Quintana is working with
the Metro Transit Police Department, she sees all of the crime
bulletins. “So I’m more aware,”
she says, although she still occasionally uses her cell phone on the
train despite a recent rise in electronics thefts.
Her main summer assignment
is creating a course on the dangers of social media for people who
work in law enforcement. With
her interest in the intersection of
media and criminology, Quintana
says she couldn’t imagine a better
place to be. At Metro, she gets the
chance to work with three separate jurisdictions — D.C., Maryland and Virginia.
A nd w it h t his internship,
she knows she’ll really be going
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with ammonium nitrate, a material
that can be used to make a bomb;
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and “The Path to Jihad.”
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The FBI said Yonathan Melaku taped himself shouting “Allah Akbar” after a shooting.

At a news conference Thursday
morning, prosecutors and the FBI
declined to comment on the possible motivation in the shootings.
“Today’s charges allege a pattern of violent behavior ... we believe
his statements that he’s targeting
military installations speak to his
desire to engage in violent activity against the military,” U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride said.
Federal officials said in court
papers that between Oct. 16 and
Nov. 2, Melaku fired shots at five
military sites in the region.
The shootings began Oct. 16
or early the next morning when
shots were fired into the win-

dows of the National Museum of
the Marine Corps at Triangle. The
Pentagon was hit a few days later.
A U.S. Marine recruiting center in
Chantilly was hit Oct. 25. Then, a
shooter fired again on the Marine
Corps museum Oct. 28 and on
Nov. 1 shot a window at a U.S.
Coast Guard recruiting center in
Woodbridge.
“Its always disappointing when
someone who wears this uniform
gets in trouble with the law,” said
Lt.. Col Chris Hughes, a spokesman
for the Marines. “It’s heart-wrenching. The nature of the offenses is heart-wrenching to us all.”
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panda Mei Xiang to see whether she might give birth. Scientists at the zoo detected a
rise in hormone levels in May that could indicate the panda may give birth or end a false
pregnancy by early July. Mei Xiang was artificially inseminated twice in January. But it’s
difficult to know whether a panda is pregnant or exhibiting signs of a false pregnancy.
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Dulce Guerrero kept quiet about
being an illegal immigrant until
earlier this year, when she became
upset after a traffic stop that landed her mother in jail for two nights.
The arrest came as Georgia’s lawmakers were crafting what would
become one of the nation’s toughest immigration crackdowns, and
Guerrero feared her mother would
be deported.
“I feel like that was my breaking
point, when my mom was in jail,”
said Guerrero, 18, who came to the
U.S. from Mexico when she was 2.
“I felt like, ‘Well, that’s it; it can’t
get any worse than this.’”
Guerrero, a recent high school
graduate, first publicly announced
her immigration status at a March
protest. Now, under the tutelage of
more experienced activists, themselves only a few years older, she’s
organizing a rally on Tuesday at
the Georgie Capitol. The highstakes movement of young illegal
immigrants’ declaring that they’re
“undocumented and unafraid” got
a boost this week when journalist Jose Antonio Vargas revealed
he’s been living in the country
illegally.
Efforts by young activists have
ranged from rallies and letterwriting to sit-ins, with the aim of

Georgina Perez, 22, is an illegal immigrant who came to the U.S.
from Mexico at age 2.
She was arrested in
Atlanta during
a protest for
immigration policy
reform.

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Young illegal
immigrants step
forward to call for
U.S. policy reform

reforming U.S. policy for immigrants in their situation.
Proponents of stricter immigration enforcement often concede
that young people in this situation
are among the most sympathetic
cases but that legalizing them still
raises problems.
“Our own American young
adult college grads are in dire
straits in the job market … so what
the DREAM Act does is adds potentially a million, 2 million more
people to compete legally in that
job market,” said Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA,
which pushes for tighter immigration control.

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Earlier this year, Georgia passed a law
that, among other things, authorizes law
enforcement officers to check the immigration status of suspects who cannot
provide identification and to detain illegal immigrants.
It also makes it a felony to present false documents or
information when applying for a job. Another section
of the Georgia law set to be phased in starting in January will require many businesses to check the immigration status of new hires, similar to an Arizona law
that was upheld by the Supreme Court recently.

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A law with
provisions
allowing
officials to
check suspects’ immigration status has
been blocked by a federal appeals court.
Gov. Jan Brewer says
she will appeal to the
Supreme Court.

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A federal
judge has
temporarily blocked
an immigration law
in Utah, citing similarities to the most
controversial parts of
Arizona’s law. A hearing on the law is set for
mid-July. (AP)

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Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, 30, used an ABC News interview and a New York Times Magazine article to announce Wednesday that he is an illegal immigrant from the Philippines. Vargas discovered
his uncertain standing as a teen and kept the secret while employed with a series of news organizations, including The Washington Post, where he shared in a Pulitzer Prize, and later the Huffington
Post. He has started an advocacy group, Define American, to promote the DREAM Act, which would
provide a path to legalization for young people brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents. (AP/ T WP)

There’s no guarantee that those
who come forward will have to
leave the U.S. right away. Some —
such as Mandeep Chahal, an honors student at the University of California, Davis — have won at least
temporary reprieves.
Chahal, 20, campaigned on
Facebook to avoid being sent back
to India.
Still, the threat of being forced
out of the U.S. weighs on those who
announce their illegal status.
“I was super-nervous,” Georgina
Perez said. “I had to do it because
in order for students to come out,
they need to see something; someone needs to set the example.”
Perez, 22, was arrested after
she and six young immigrants sat
in an Atlanta intersection, blocking traffic. The hardest thing, she
said, was when her mother apologized for putting her in a difficult situation.
“It’s like you can’t really fully
live your life here, and she knows
that, and it breaks her heart,” Perez
said, choking up. “I thank her for
bringing me here. I told her, ‘Don’t
ever say that again. Don’t apologize.’” K ATE BRUMBACK (AP)

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the year. But the Brazilians haven’t
played much since regional qualifying, and finished last year with
back-to-back ties against emerging
Canada.
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GERMANY is trying to
become the first team
to win three-straight
World Cup titles. It’s
undefeated so far this year.

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Livan Hernandez will pitch for the Nats
in Sunday’s series finale in Chicago.

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7 A.M. Wimbledon moves into the
third round at the All-England Club.
ESPN2
7 P.M. Who will the Caps select with
the 26th pick in the NHL draft? Versus
8:10 P.M. The Nats hit the road to
begin a series against the Chicago
White Sox. MASN

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mix of live and taped action. NBC
4 P.M. The Nats hope to stay hot
against the White Sox. MASN
6 P.M. D.C. United shoots to keep the
Houston Dynamo winless on the road
this season. CSN
9 P.M. The U.S. plays Mexico in the
Gold Cup final. Fox Soccer

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8:45 A.M. Nigeria plays France in the
first game of the Women’s World Cup.
ESPN2
11:30 A.M. Germany takes the field
in Berlin against Canada in the other
Women’s World Cup game. ESPN
2 P.M. Livan Hernandez looks to
bounce back from a shaky start when
facing the White Sox. MASN
3 P.M. NASCAR rolls into Sonoma,
Calif., for the Toyota/Save Mart 350.
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for anything less
than its first World
Cup title since 1999
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The last time the United States
won the women’s World Cup, Mia
Hamm and Julie Foudy were still
playing, Abby Wambach had just
led Florida to the college title, and
Alex Morgan was all of 10.
That 1999 title is so far in the
distance, in fact, that captain Christie Rampone is the only current U.S.
player who was part of the watershed tournament.
“It’s been way too long — 12
years — since we brought home that

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Who the U.S. will face first in
Germany.
The U.S. beat NORTH
KOREA 3-0 in group
play in both 1999 and
2003. The teams tied 2-2 in 2007.
Europe’s second-best
team, SWEDEN has
struggled so far this
year with losses in five of its nine
matches.
COLOMBIA’S first
trip to the Women’s
World Cup is fueled by
a core of young players.

trophy,” goalkeeper Hope Solo said.
“Twelve years is a long time.”
Ending that drought is the
Americans’ sole objective at the
World Cup, which begins Sunday
and runs through July 17 in nine
cities across Germany. One of the
four top seeds, the U.S. plays its
first group match Tuesday against
North Korea in Dresden, then faces
Colombia on July 2 in Sinsheim and
Sweden on July 6 in Wolfsburg.
Despite coming up short at the
last two World Cups, the Americans
haven’t exactly been in a slump.
They’ve won the last two Olympic
gold medals and begin the World
Cup as the No. 1 team in the world.
They have the world’s best goalkeeper in Solo and one of the most prolific scorers in Wambach.

Yet the Americans aren’t the juggernaut they once were, either.
Part of that is a credit to other
countries, many of whom are seeing the results of the additional
resources they poured into their
programs over the last decade. But
the U.S. has also been uncharacteristically inconsistent of late, particularly during the last year.
After going more than two years
without a loss, the U.S. dropped
three games in five months.
The Americans were stunned
in the semifinals of regional World
Cup qualifying by Mexico, a team
that drew once and lost 24 times in
the previous 25 clashes, and which
had to win a two-legged playoff
with Italy just to get to Germany. The U.S. lost to Sweden in the
Four Nations opener, though it did
go on to win the tournament, and
then was beaten by England for
the first time since 1988.
And now the Americans take a
relatively inexperienced squad into
the World Cup. Thirteen of the 21
players were part of the gold medal
squad in Beijing, but only eight
have played in a World Cup.
“They just haven’t shown that
normal consistency of excellence
that the U.S. is known for,” said
Tony DiCicco, the U.S. coach in
1999 who is now an analyst for
ESPN. NANCY ARMOUR (AP)

Li Na Falls at Wimbledon
French Open champion Li Na squandered
two match points and lost 3-6, 6-4, 8-6
Thursday to wild card Sabine Lisicki in
the second round of Wimbledon, the
biggest upset of the tournament so far.
Earlier, defending champion Serena
Williams recovered from a poor start
to defeat Simona Halep 3-6, 6-2, 6-1
and move into the third round, staying
on course for a fifth title. (AP)
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Twister Strikes Home
Of Kentucky Derby
A tornado smashed horse stables at the
home of the Kentucky Derby, but the
legendary track will get back to racing
Friday after events were postponed for
a day. No people or horses were hurt at
Churchill Downs during the Wednesday
evening storm, and its famed twin spires,
grandstand and clubhouse were not
damaged. (AP)
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Labor Talks Continue
NFL owners and players met for the
second-straight day in Hull, Mass., 18
miles south of Boston, as they attempt
to close in on a new collective bargaining
agreement. (AP)

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The men’s national soccer teams
from the United States and Mexico have seemed to be on a crash
course since the CONCACAF Gold
Cup began. To the delight of most
North American soccer fans, the
region’s two giants persevered to
reach the tournament’s final for
the third consecutive time.
Saturday’s meeting at the Rose
Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., will be
the culmination of the latest chapter in the storied rivalry between

the two nations. They’ve split their
past two Gold Cup final meetings,
with Mexico having the last laugh
in 2009.
In that match, a full-strength
Mexico squad thrashed the United States — which brought a second-tier squad to the tournament
— 5-0, at the old Giants Stadium
in New Jersey. But two years earlier, the United States won on a tremendous volley from a distance by
Benny Feilhaber, outlasting Mexico,
2-1, at Soldier Field in Chicago.
For the United States to win, it
will need to contain star Mexican
forward Javier Hernandez.
No one U.S. defender will stop
the player known as “Chicharito,”

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How they got here: Mexico won its
group, beat Guatemala, 2-1, in the
quarterfinals and beat Honduras,
2-0 in extra time, in the semifinals;
The United States finished second in
its group, defeated Jamaica, 2-0, in
the quarterfinals and beat Panama,
1-0, in the semifinals.
Mexico will win if: It maintains its
dominant level of play and forward

who starred for Manchester United
in his first professional season in
England this past year and scored
20 goals across all club competitions. It’s more about disrupting
the timing of his runs and deny-

Javier Hernandez gets ample service. Mexico, while not as sharp in
its past two matches, is the more
explosive, and if its free-flowing attack gets into a rhythm, it could be
a repeat of 2009 all over again.
The USA will win if: It keeps Javier
Hernandez under wraps; disrupts
Mexico’s rhythm with an organized,
physical defensive effort; and gets
the best out of attacking standouts
Landon Donovan and Clint Dempsey.
This team is capable of beating Mexico, but it will take its best effort of
the tournament to do so. A.C.

ing him service into dangerous
positions, because he’s as lethal a
finisher as there is in the region —
as seen with his tournament-high
seven goals.
As for the United States, it

remains to be seen what role star
Landon Donovan will play. In the
team’s semifinal victory over Panama on Wednesday, the U.S. star
came off the bench for the second game in a row after starting every national-team game in
which he had played for the past
four years.
He combined with surprise substitute Freddy Adu, who made his
first national-team appearance in
two years, to set up Clint Dempsey
for the game-winning goal in the
77th minute of the 1-0 result. Panama had handed the Americans
their first-ever loss in Gold Cup
group play 11 days earlier.
“We’ve said all along that this
tournament is a marathon,” Donovan told reporters Wednesday. “You
can’t get too caught up in one result.
You have to keep getting better as
the tournament goes on, and now
we find ourselves in the final with
a chance to win it.” AVI CREDITOR

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forward Will Bruin, left, who had his way with the D.C. defense, netting a hat trick in a 4-1 win on April 29 in Houston.
The game is important because United trails the Dynamo by a point in the Eastern Conference standings. Matches
like these could ultimately determine playoff positioning down the line. A.C.

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The economy has contributed
to the demand for salvaged, energy-efficient design elements, says
Tim Campbell, a product manager
at Metropolitan Regional Information Systems (MRIS.com), which
runs the country’s largest real
estate listing service and monitors
market trends. Recently, he says,
“everybody’s much more conscious
of their energy bills and of their
footprint on the environment.”
Nadia Subaran, senior designer, co-founder and co-owner of
Aidan Design architecture firm
(4701 Sangamore Road, Suite 3,
Bethesda; 301-320-8735, Aidandesign.com), would agree. Adding
green materials to the home is “a
part of every client conversation I
have [now], whereas five years ago,
it was maybe one in 10,” she says.
“I think it’s due to greater social
awareness. People are much more
conscious of the choices they make.
I think that everybody feels that
they have, in their own small way,
a power to influence or to affect by
their choices.”
There’s not much data on the
effect of eco-friendly features on
overall home values, largely because
green technologies continue to evolve.
However, houses with perks such as
LEED certification, recycled design
elements and Energy Star appliances tend to sell for more money than
non-green homes, according to a
2009 study by the Earth Advantage

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10 fewer days on the market, according to Campbell.
It all comes down to basic supply-and-demand economics, Campbell says. As consumers become
more interested in preserving the
planet through their property choices, “builders start building homes
and communities using those green
features, and using them as selling
points for their marketing.”
Bethesda-based Rill Architects
(4833 Rugby Avenue, Suite 501;
301-656-4166, Rillarchitects.com)
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of up to 100 for the nine areas.
Points are awarded for how certain features will help the environment, especially when it
comes to energy efficiency and
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interest in recycled materials has
always been based on our clients’
wishes,” says Jim Rill, principal
and owner of the company.
Rill and his team recently
worked on a house in Kensington, Md., installing additions that
helped it earn a LEED gold certification. In the kitchen, they installed
tan countertops made of recycled
beer and soda bottles. When light
hits the counters, they project a glittery sheen. The innovative touch
became a focal point.
“The countertops are vibrant.
They’re not calm,” Rill says. “They
act like granite or Corian. They
are a little more expensive [than
actual granite], believe it or not.
You have to really be enthusiastic
about it to do it.”
Michael Bellaman and his family of five — who will soon move into
the Kensington home from Chicago — were. The Bellamans wanted

their new place to meet three criteria: the right price, the right neighborhood and the right level of environmental friendliness.
“I think a lot of houses will dabble with some components, but this
house has really taken … advantage
of the eco-friendly opportunities,
and I think it’s done in a very nice
way,” says Bellaman, the president
and CEO of Associated Builders
and Contractors.
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mentally friendly features vary
wildly.
To keep financial and environmental costs down when she redid
the kitchen in her Chevy Chase
house, Cara Medeiros asked Aidan
Design to salvage as much of the
existing materials in the room as
possible. She’d had the kitchen renovated five years ago, but the cabinetry didn’t hold up well, so she
wanted to redo much of it.
“The island is new cabinetry,
but we were able to save the walnut top” from Medeiros’ original
kitchen, Aidan Design’s Subaran
says. “All of the cabinetry hardware was reused, but the tile work
was all new and the floors were
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The metal railing in Jeremy Richardson’s condo was originally a grate at the Swiss
Embassy. Now, it serves as a one-of-a-kind divider between the stairs and living room.

Medeiros, 42, a stay-at-home
mom of two, says the result is a
timeless, classic look. “Reusing
anything is always the way to go,”
she says. “For me, things with a little age have a little more character
and make it more interesting.”
For many of Rill’s clients, the
benefits of green materials and furnishings are a rewarding bonus, if
not the impetus for installing them.
“I’d love to say it’s because everybody cares about the environment.
I think it’s more along the line of
they like the materials,” Rill says.
“It’s fun. It’s playful.”
That’s probably true of the salvaged railing in Richardson’s Solidago condo, too. The fixture separating the stairwell and living room
was once a grate covering a pit at the
Embassy of Switzerland. Now, it’s a
striking element of his décor.

“I was looking for something
that was unique to put there
because it’s such a high sight-value location. It’s the first thing you
see when you walk into the apartment,” says Tanya Topolewski, principal of True Turtle (808 Aspen
St. NW; 202-550-3671, Trueturtle.com), a D.C.-based company focused on sustainable development. Topolewski bought the
weathered black metal railing at
D.C.’s Brass Knob (Thebrassknob.
com) antiques shop for $150 and
added it to Richardson’s condo.
“It’s really textural,” Topolewski
says of the railing. “People want
to touch it. It’s rewarding to touch
something that’s real, that’s been
used before, even in the most
mundane of ways. It wasn’t fabricated to look old. It is old.”
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When furnishing your first apartment, there can be an overwhelming urge to rush out to the nearest
chain store and blow your budget
outfitting the entire place.
Resist that temptation. As difficult as it may be, you should pace
yourself. Spending more time and
more money on fewer items now
will pay off later.
“Instead of using your budget
on items that will fall apart, invest
in quality items that you can use for
many years to come,” local designer Marika Meyer says.

“It’s good to think of how you
can use [something] now and how
you can use it later,” says Amy
Rutherford, owner of suburban
Red Barn Mercantile. “You want
the piece to grow with you, so it
needs to be timeless and multipurpose.”
Before buying, ask yourself: Do
I love it? Will I still love it five years
from now? Is it versatile?
Keep in mind that it’s not necessary to buy your “forever” furniture right away or all at once.
The following list is meant to be
used as a guide as you plot your
course. When it comes to buying
furniture, spending your time and
money slowly and surely is the key
to long-term success. TERRI SAPIENZA
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that isn’t too deep, so it can
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double as a wet bar, and is an excellent place to rest a TV, she says. It can also
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room linens and now holds boxes of Legos,” Cavin-Winfrey says. A smallerscale bachelor’s chest is also versatile, designer Annie Elliot says: It can go in a
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chairs, or next to a bed. “I even have one in my bathroom right now,” Elliot says.
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ideal for a recent graduate unlikely to stay put for more than a year or two.”

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to use it forever, so buy something
good with really durable fabric,” designer Erin Pitts says. “Just don’t get
it in a print.” A plain fabric
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Washington Nationals manager
Jim Riggleman abruptly resigned
from one of the hottest teams in
baseball Thursday, saying he felt
the franchise wasn’t committed to
him over the long term.
Riggleman quit because the
Nationals weren’t prepared to pick
up the option on his contract for
next year, further reinforcing his
feeling that he was merely a placeholder manager until the team
could find someone better.
“It’s been brewing for a while,”
Riggleman said after the team completed a sweep of the Seattle Mariners. “It’s not a situation where I
felt like I should continue on such
a short lease.”
His decision caught the franchise by surprise. General Manager Mike Rizzo said he’ll announce
Friday who will manage the team
this weekend during a road series
against the Chicago White Sox.
“Jim told me pregame today that
if we wouldn’t pick up his option,
then he wouldn’t get on the team
bus today,” Rizzo said. “I felt that
the time wasn’t right for me to
pick up the option, and certainly
today’s conversation put to me in

THE NATIONALS’ MANAGER THAT HE FELT DISRESPECTED
BECAUSE HE WAS NEVER GIVEN A LONG-TERM CONTRACT.

the way it was put to me, you certainly can’t make that decision in
a knee-jerk reaction. It’s too big of
a decision.”
The Nationals have won 11 of
12 and are above .500 this late in
the season for the first time since
2005.
“We should be celebrating going
to Chicago,” Rizzo said. “I’m disappointed that this is a distraction, that this is not thinking of
the team first, that it is thinking
of personal goals, thinking of personal things firsts..”
Riggleman has been working
on one-year deals since taking over
for Manny Acta in 2009. He was
being paid $600,000 this year and
the Nationals held a team option

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Jim Riggleman’s resignation
came moments after Laynce Nix
hit a game-ending sacrifice fly in
the bottom of the ninth against Seattle, pushing Washington (38-37)
over .500 for the first time since
April 20. Nix’s fly to left off Chris
Ray (3-2) was deep enough to score
Danny Espinosa, who easily beat a
throw from Mike Carp. (AP)

for 2012 at $600,000.
The 58-year-old Riggleman
previously managed San Diego,
the Chicago Cubs and Seattle,
spending parts of 12 seasons in the
dugout overall. He has a 662-824
record overall. Riggleman guided the Cubs to the 1998 NL wildcard spot and was let go after the
next year.
Born and raised in Rockville,
Md., a short drive from Nationals Park, he maintained his local
roots.
Unable to attend his high
school reunion because Washington was playing, he instead invited his classmates to meet him the
same weekend at a home game.
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Mystics Failing Chemistry Early in Season
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It was one play that cost the Mystics one basket. And yet, when Kelly
Miller failed to connect her pass
with Crystal Langhorne in the first
quarter of Tuesday’s 89-80 loss to
the Indiana Fever — resulting in
a turnover instead of a layup — it
summed up why the Mystics have
started the season 1-5 and in last
place in the Eastern Conference.

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Coach Trudi Lacey is off to a 1-5 start
with the Washington Mystics this year.

“It comes a lot from us not talking,” Langhorne said. “That’s part
of our problem, and then a lot of it
is we still have a lot of new people.
... It’s a lot of change, so I think it’s
still taking time.”
The Mystics, who will try to
snap their four-game skid Sunday against the Tulsa Shock, can
chalk up their miscues to a lack of
familiarity among the players. Only
three players on last year’s active

roster, when the Mystics finished
first in the Eastern Conference, are
on this year’s roster.
The Mystics’ lack of chemistry
shows on the defensive end. They’ve
allowed their opponents to score
more than 10 more points per game
than they surrendered last year.
Time is the key, new coach Trudi
Lacey said. “I think we’ll continue
to learn each other and learn each
other’s habits,” she said. JOE BUBAR

Even when the Nationals finally
seem to be getting it right, something
goes wrong. And when I say wrong, I
mean terribly wrong.
Manager Jim Riggleman’s sudden
resignation is the absolute worst thing
that can happen to a team that was
the best story in baseball for the past week.
A team that never
even reached .500 in
three of the past six
seasons has more wins
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the Nats capped an 8-1 homestand
with a 1-0 win over the Seattle Mariners on Thursday afternoon.
Then came the bombshell. Boom
goes the dynamite, all right.
Whether you believe Riggleman
deserved a contract extension, the
skipper surely picked the right time to
demand compensation for putting the
moribund franchise on the right track.
Clearly, General Manager Mike
Rizzo doesn’t like ultimatums.
Now, though, when he should be
basking in the success of the roster
made of his own hands, Rizzo must
find a new manager.
Just as soon as it seemed like
things were too good to be true at
Nationals Park, we’ve been reminded
they were.
To reach Matt Swenson, e-mail
matt.swenson@readexpress.com

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It’s OK to come out now, Caps
fans. With the NHL season over
and the entry draft set to begin
Friday in St. Paul, Minn., it’s
time to move on from another
disappointing postseason and
focus on the bigger picture —
the continued improvement
of the Hershey Bears and the
Capitals’ farm system.

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Capitals General Manager George
McPhee has five picks burning a
hole in his pocket, and you can bet
he’ll try to land another gem with
a late first-round pick. (Does John
Carlson, a 27th overall pick, ring a
bell?) Here is a primer on the Caps’
draft-day options.

Remember short-lived Capital Joe
Corvo? When the Caps acquired the
defenseman from the Carolina Hurricanes in March 2010, they gave away
their second-round pick in the 2011
entry draft as part of the deal. The
Caps traded their third-round pick as
part of a deal to get the Florida Pan-

Washington will select in the first
(26th overall), fourth, fifth, sixth and
seventh rounds. The Caps’ five draft
picks are tied for the fewest picks in
franchise history (the team had five
picks in 1979 and 2010).

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but the best
guess would be
a defender. The
Caps have grown thinner at the
position after purging their minor
league system for players such
as Karl Alzner and John Carlson,
above, in the past year, and securing the blue line’s future isn’t a
bad investment. R.A.

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wary about drafting
Russian players, the
Capitals seem willing to
take chances on them
(see the selections of
Dmitri Orlov and Evgeny Kuznetsov),
despite competition from the Kontinental Hockey League to sign young
Russians who have been drafted. The
highest-rated Russian prospect by
the NHL’s Central Scouting is winger
Nikita Kucherov, pictured. In the past
season, Kucherov scored 27 goals and
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is the 12th-ranked
goaltending prospect
from North America.
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Waterloo in the USHL aren’t great (20
games played, 3.49 goals against average, .891 save percentage), but he
has international experience with the
United States U-18s. There’s a good
chance Williams will go undrafted,
and history has shown that the Caps
may not need to draft him if they want
to sign a local. In 1999, they signed
undrafted local product Jeff Halpern,
who went on to become the team’s
captain during the rebuilding years of
2005-06. REED S. ALBERS

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Which explains why her
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She’ll be at Nana (3068
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I love most of your shoe recommendations, but I can’t
afford them, because I’m just
a poor office drone. Can you
suggest some inexpensive
flat sandals I could wear on
the weekends this summer?
— PATRICIA

Manolo says as is usually his custom, the Manolo recommends that
the poor girls save their monies and
purchase the best quality of superfantastic feetwear that they can afford, for such investments are repaid
many times over in comfort, beauty
and the satisfaction of wearing.

But, the Manolo also sympathizes
with the poor working girls, who must
work hard to pay the rent on the tiny,
ninth-floor-walk-up, studio apartment
in the grungy bohemian part of town,
where all of the boys wear the tooskinny-jeans and ride the bicycles.
Indeed, the Manolo himself knows
what it is like to be so poor that you
must fashion your own super-fantastic flat sandals out of the Pabst Blue
Ribbon cans and pieces of oversized
hipster eyeglasses you have found in
the dumpster behind that ironically
iconic (iconically ironic?) dive bar.
And so the Manolo would recommend to you the Gigi from the Sam
Edelman ($60, Zappos.com) as being
the simple-but-good-looking, moderately priced flat sandal for your summer wearing needs. It is available in
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Alas, Poor Mater
As the mother of a 3-year-old, I have
the research to back up this statement: “Cars” holds up pretty well to
multiple viewings. And by “multiple”
I mean “at least 50.” “Cars 2,” out
today, probably won’t.
“Cars” is the story of, in the words
of my son, “a real fast race car”
named Lightning McQueen, who learns a
valuable lesson when
he ends up in a small
town. One of his mentors on his journey
is a rusty tow truck
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2,” Mater is the main
character — and that’s the problem.
In the first film, where McQueen is
a nuanced, well-rounded character,
Mater mostly serves as a one-note
foil. He’s fun to watch and is absolutely necessary, but his major function is to show McQueen that you can
be happy even if you’re not a real fast
race car. He’s like the gravedigger in
“Hamlet” — he’s well-written, he’s
enjoyable to watch, and he serves
a metaphorical purpose, but, well,
there’s a reason there’s no play called
“Gravedigger.”
Of course, young fans will love
“Cars 2,” and it will probably be a
financial success, even before factoring in the Lightning McQueen toys
and the clothes and the sheets and
the insulin and whatever else they’re
selling.
But the mistake Pixar made in this,
its weakest film by far, was thinking
that a tow truck could pull a story
along.
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“Cars 2” features a lot more of two
things: Mater, the rusty, rednecky
tow truck voiced by Larry the Cable
Guy; and car racing.
On the surface, this sounds like
the appeal of the sequel to the animated “Cars” might be limited,
somewhat, to the NASCAR demographic, or at least a whole lot more
than the first film was. While there
were a few racing scenes in the original 2006 film, most of that story
centered on the distinctive “personalities” of its talking-car characters — hotshot stock car Lightning
McQueen (Owen Wilson), cranky
vintage racer Doc Hudson (Paul
Newman); sexy Porsche Sally Carrera (Bonnie Hunt) — and their relationships with one another.
As lovable as Mater is, let’s face
it: A little bit of Larry the Cable Guy
goes a long way.
Fortunately, “Cars 2” is a long,
looong way from the Talladega, not to mention from Radiator
Springs, the remote Southwestern town where Mater lives and
where the first movie takes place.
Set in Tokyo, London and a picturesque Italian village during a threepart, international race to determine the fastest car in the world,
“Cars 2” boasts eye-popping scenery of far-flung locales and thrilling race sequences. It’s a visually
stunning film. Unfortunately, the

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‘Cars 2’ Adds Fuel to the Gasoline Debate
Pixar Animation’s John Lasseter says the company has no environmental
agenda, but with “Cars 2,” the outfit does tap into today’s eco-mindedness
with a plot driven by oil versus a cleaner alternative. “Cars 2” sends Lightning McQueen on a World Grand Prix circuit whose organizer fuels the vehicles with a green alternative called Allinol, prompting the bad guys to try to
discredit the new power supply that threatens traditional gasoline. (AP)

sequel shortchanges the very relationships that gave the first movie
its surprising heart.
The overly complicated plot of
“Cars 2” centers on a mystery —
specifically, a secret weapon that
threatens Lightning and his fellow
racers, and the identity of the shadowy figure who’s using it.
Two British secret agents are on
the case: Finn McMissile (Michael
Caine) and Holly Shiftwell (Emily
Mortimer). McMissile, unsurprisingly, bears more than a passing resemblance to James Bond’s tricked-out
Aston Martin, if designed by Inspector Gadget. It’s very cleverly done.
In general, so is the
entire film. But cleverFrom left: Fillmore (Lloyd
Sherr), Luigi (Tony Shalhoub), Guido (Guido Quaroni) and Mater
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Guy) in “Cars 2.”

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Brad Lewis
Stars: Owen Wilson, Larry the
Cable Guy, Michael Caine
In a Nutshell: Lightning McQueen and pal Mater head overseas
to compete in the World Grand Prix.
But the road to the championship becomes rocky as Mater winds up
in an intriguing adventure.

ness is no substitute for emotion.
The intrigue — in which Mater
gets mixed up when he’s taken for
an American spy — excites but does
not engage. A subplot involving a rift
in Mater and Lightning’s friendship
feels perfunctory, like an attempt to
tack a moral onto a thriller.
And as smart-looking and sharpsounding as “Cars 2” mostly is, the
central mystery about the identity
of the villain — a car whose engine
has been identified but whose body
is never shown, and whose voice has
been altered — just isn’t that much
of a mystery. At least not for anyone
who has seen more than one or two
“Scooby-Doo” cartoons.
That said, there’s enough to like
about “Cars 2” to make for a pleasant ride. It may not be fully loaded,
but there’s still enough gas in
the tank to get you around
the track one more time.
MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN (THE WASHINGTON POST )

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high marks, but ‘Bad
Teacher’s’ premise is
ultimately limiting
“Bad Teacher” is exactly the one-joke
movie that you probably expect it to
be, but there are enough variations
of that one joke to sustain its brief
running time — just barely.
Cameron Diaz plays ... a bad
teacher. She secretly sips airline-size
booze bottles during class, doesn’t
bother to learn her students’ names
and figures that showing them
movies about education is just as
good as educating them herself.
Because, you see, she’s not teaching
middle school English for the deeply rewarding experience of shaping young minds. She just needs
enough cash for a boob job.
Director Jake Kasdan photographs Diaz as if she were a vixen in
a Whitesnake video, and Diaz revels in a role that lets her be sexy and
inappropriately funny all at once.
Jason Segel is hugely likable as

hang out with her anyway. Phyllis
Smith has some wonderfully awkward moments as a shy teacher dazzled by Elizabeth’s behavior.
And then there’s Justin Timberlake, Diaz’s real-life ex-boyfriend.
He plays a proper and preppy substitute who comes from old money
but teaches because he believes that
children are our future. He may
not let loose like he has on “Saturday Night Live,” but he’s a pleasure as always.
Still, “Bad Teacher” leaves you
wishing they’d all misbehaved just a
little bit more. CHRIST Y LEMIRE (AP)

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Stars: Cameron Diaz, Jason
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In a Nutshell: A comedy centered on a foul-mouthed teacher
who, after being dumped by her
sugar daddy, begins to woo a colleague — a move that pits her
against a well-loved teacher.

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Stop’ documents the
comic’s 2010 live tour
If you’re a Conan O’Brien fan, you
may already know that he has two
kids, plays a pretty mean rock guitar and is half-Jewish.
OK, that last part isn’t true. But
the famously Irish Catholic comedian and talk-show host does joke
about being half-Jewish — and many
other things — in “Conan O’Brien
Can’t Stop,” a documentary about
the live stage show he toured the
country with in the summer of 2010
after being forced by NBC to exit

“The Tonight Show.” Partly about
the making of the stage show and
partly about the anger and compulsion underlying the making of it,
the movie is often very funny. And

when it’s not, it’s revelatory.
A mix of live music, stand-up,
vaudeville, random guest spots and
public confession, O’Brien’s “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny
on Television” tour was an almost
instant hit, selling out before the
show’s contents had been created.
And what becomes clear in the
film, directed by Rodman Flender,
is that what O’Brien really loves best
is being in front of an audience.
He makes jokes at everyone’s
expense: his writers, his personal assistant, his friends, his fans.
But O’Brien is funniest, and most
revealing, when making them about
his own fame and ego, his own
neediness and self-doubt. MICHAEL
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BEGINNERS (R, 104 minutes) The story
of a middle-aged man who learns that his
father is gay, only to lose him to cancer
a few years later, “Beginners” traces the
effect of both cataclysms on the younger
man’s nascent relationship with a fetching French actress. The film opens with
the death of Hal (Christopher Plummer),
who, as his son Oliver (Ewan McGregor)
explains in a voice-over, came out of the
closet with a flamboyant vengeance after
his longtime wife died, taking a younger
lover and diving into Southern California
gay culture. Jumping around in time —
from flashbacks of growing up in a house
where so much went unspoken to his father’s coming out to just before his death
— the movie focuses on Oliver’s efforts
to untangle how his parents’ marriage informed his own fears of commitment. A.H.
GREEN LANTERN (PG-13, 105 minutes)
The premise of “Green Lantern” seems
as musty as a dog-eared pulp magazine:
Earth’s Lantern is one of thousands
of intergalactic cops who wear magic
rings that draw their juice from “the
emerald energy of willpower.” The latest contender for emeraldhood is Hal
Jordan (Ryan Reynolds), a bad-boy test
pilot, forever striving to be as brave as
the top-gun father he saw incinerated by
exploding jet fuel. Yet Hal doesn’t seem
the hero type, exactly. A self-described
“total screw-up,” he’s personally unreliable and emotionally unavailable, even to
longtime love/hate interest Carol Ferris

(Blake Lively). Half of “Green Lantern”
transpires in CGI-created outer space,
and yet this is the type of movie where all
the central players are close at hand. Not
only is Hal’s true love an office mate; so
is his potential adversary, Hector Hammond (Peter Sarsgaard). MARK JENKINS
THE HANGOVER: PART II (R, 102 minutes) A veritable textbook case of what
not to do when remaking a comedy that
depended on sheer surprise for most of
its appeal, “The Hangover: Part II” also
inadvertently points out the weaknesses
of the first movie. In “Part II,” director
Todd Phillips follows the first movie
beat for beat, switching a character and
location here and there but never straying far from the original template. The
movie opens with Bradley Cooper’s Phil
— scruffy, sweaty, red-eyed — dolefully
calling Tracy, the impending bride from
the first movie, to tell her that, once
again, “We [screwed] up.” By “we,” of
course, he means Alan (Zach Galifianakis) and Stu (Ed Helms), who is about to
be married in Thailand. Once the posse
lands in Thailand, “just one beer” two
nights before the wedding turns into a
similar bender, with the three principals
awaking in a Bangkok hotel room with
a monkey in a Rolling Stones vest and
no memory of how they got there. A.H.
KUNG FU PANDA 2 (PG, 92 minutes) In
the satisfying, if less than sensational,
sequel to the funny, charming and actionpacked animated feature from 2008, Po
the panda (voice of Jack Black) returns
in pursuit of inner peace, the defeat of a
murderous peacock (Gary Oldman) and
the truth about what happened to his real
parents. What? You didn’t actually think
that Mr. Ping (James Hong), the noodle-

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making Chinese goose from the first
movie who raised Po as his son, was actually our hero’s biological father, did you?
The new movie puts that question to rest.
It’s both a story about Po’s search for his
origins and a reckoning with the bad guy
responsible for Po’s identity crisis. M.O.
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG-13, 94 minutes)
From its rapturous opening sequence,
“Midnight in Paris” announces that Woody
Allen has returned to at least one of his
most beloved forms. “Midnight in Paris”
finds Allen in a larky, slightly tart and
altogether bountiful mood. Owen Wilson
plays Gil, a screenwriter and would-be
serious author who’s visiting Paris with
his fiancee, Inez (Rachel McAdams), and
her parents. Gil is besotted with the
Paris of the 1920s, when his heroes F.
Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway
traded dry martinis and even drier barbs
with the likes of Gertrude Stein and Pablo
Picasso. Inez and her family, on the other
hand, couldn’t care less. The mood is
doubly spoiled when they bump into Paul
(Michael Sheen), an old college crush of
Inez’s, now an incorrigible pedant. A.H.
MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS (PG, 97 minutes) Jim Carrey, as the titular Thomas
Popper, steals the show from his avian
co-stars, a flock of CGI penguins who
are strenuously adorable in the way that
only CGI penguins can be. Playing a slick
Manhattan real estate developer who
reluctantly comes into possession of six
Gentoo penguins, the actor uses his gift
for physical comedy and funny voices
to propel this gentle comedy forward

toward its sweet if slightly familiar message about the importance of family over
career advancement. A divorced dad who
shares custody of his kids with his ex-wife
(Carla Gugino), Popper decides to keep
the penguins only after his son (Maxwell
Perry Cotton) and daughter (Madeline
Carroll) beg him not to send them back.
Grown-ups will see where this is going.
But before it gets there, what follows is
a series of antic misadventures involving
penguins’ need for cold temperatures —
Popper essentially turns his apartment
into a giant walk-in freezer — and the
birds’ propensity for imprinting with a
parental figure, regardless of species. M.O.
SUPER 8 (R, 118 minutes) In “Super 8,” a
chubby would-be director named Charles
(Riley Griffiths) keeps running around his
small Ohio hometown, framing its culde-sacs and tract homes with his hands
and calling for “more production value.”
Charles is shooting his own zombie movie,
and he has commandeered his adolescent
friends to work on his cast and crew. The
scenes of Charles’ movie-within-a-movie
turn out to be the best parts of “Super 8.”
While Charles and his team are filming, they
inadvertently record a horrific accident
that ends up drawing the attention of the
U.S. Air Force. Charles’ special-effects guy,
Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney), is convinced that
something is afoot, between the mysterious
military ops, an electrical grid gone haywire
and an epidemic of missing dogs. A.H.
THE TREE OF LIFE (PG-13, 138 minutes)
The sprawling story of a man’s quest to
reconcile a contradictory parental legacy,

“The Tree of Life” ties that search to
more metaphysical questions having to
do with God, creation, truth and beauty.
As a character named Mr. O’Brien, Brad
Pitt plays the patriarch of a 1950s family
that lives in a leafy Texas suburb. A hardjawed, embittered martinet, Mr. O’Brien
brings up his three boys with a toxic combination of intimidation and commanding
affection. Less a narrative than a series
of sharp shards of memory, the next segment of “The Tree of Life” traces his life
with Father, whose mercurial, fearsome
force Jack fuses with God’s power at its
most fickle and inscrutable. A.H.
X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG-13, 131 minutes) “First Class” begins, like the comic
book series itself, in 1944. That’s when a
young German boy named Erik Lehnsherr
watches his parents being hauled off to
Auschwitz. In a fit of fear and rage, he
bends the metal gate separating him from
his family, commanding the attention of
a scientist eager to harness young Erik’s
telekinetic powers. Twenty years later,
the grown Erik (Michael Fassbender)
contemplates his revenge against the
man who went on to ruin his life and
who now goes by the name of Sebastian
Shaw. Meanwhile, the genially telepathic
Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) is earning his doctorate in genetic research at
Oxford, with his shape-shifting friend and
surrogate sister, Raven, by his side. A.H.
REVIEWS BY THE WASHINGTON POST’S ANN
HORNADAY AND MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN. FOR
FULL REVIEWS OF THESE AND OTHER FILMS, SEEGOINGOUTGUIDE.COM/MOVIES

Jurassic
Rock
Dinosaur Jr. is
not for everyone. If you
don’t like feedback in
your music, for instance,
you’ll want to stay away.
But if the scratchy altrock sound appeals to you
(and the band has been
around since the ’80s, so
you probably know if you
like it), then check out the
group’s concert Saturday.
9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW;
Sat., 8 p.m., $30; 202265-0930, 930.com.
(U St.-Cardozo)

Because our favorite games re-enact violent
combat (e.g. Risk, Battleship), we are inordinately fond of water balloon fights. This
Sunday the Georgetown Waterfront will
become a festival of barbecue and
children’s activities, and the best
part is the massive “water balloon toss,” which begins as a
“try your best not to break
the balloons” event but
soon gives way to an enormous water-gun fight. And
that’s just how they plan
it! There’s no fighting human
nature. Washington Harbor, 3000
K St. NW; Sun., noon, free; 202-2989222, Georgetowndc.com.

We love the National
Symphony Orchestra Pops
for taking weird chances, like
this weekend’s performance
backing up funk/hip-hop/
samba band Ozomatli. Sure,
it’s at the Kennedy Center
and it’s likely to be more
subdued than the average
Ozomatli concert, but we’re
sure it will bring both da
noise and da funk. Kennedy
Center, 2700 F St. NW; Sat.,
8 p.m., $20-$65; 202-4674600, Kennedy-center.org.
(Foggy Bottom)

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fantasy mode. It almost seems
like the premium network wants the
audience for the just-completed “Game
of Thrones” to stick around.
As the action commences, Sookie (Anna Paquin) seems knee-deep
in some kind of fairyland where time
stands still and gorgeous folks devour
a magical glowing fruit, an appetizer
our heroine has the presence of mind
to avoid. Not to give too much away,
but action soon returns to her vampire Peyton Place by the bayou, where
things are nuanced and interesting, if
not a tad hard to follow.
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taste, even if its myriad subplots seem to
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Judge Stephanie Sautner chided Lindsay Lohan Thursday for
having rooftop parties while
serving house arrest, but said
Lohan hadn’t violated any other
terms of her probation. The
judge said Lohan didn’t violate
her probation by testing positive
for alcohol during a recent test.
The testing requirement ended
in February. Sautner said Lohan
can have only one friend over at
her house at a time. (AP)

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One of Justin Bieber’s bodyguards
was issued a summons for disorderly
conduct in New York City Thursday,
after scuffling with a plainclothes cop
mistaken for a crazed fan. Bieber was
entering the Herald Square Macy’s
when teenage girls started knocking
down metal barricades, the New York
Daily News reported. “Bieber wasn’t
touched,” police said. (EXPRESS)

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October. The series
follows various celebrities as non-celebrities woo them,
according to Popeater.com. “This is actually the first time I have dated in my
life,” Suleman said. (EXPRESS)

Kim Kardashian, Zoe Saldana, Christina
Ricci and Malin Ackerman will all guestjudge on Lifetime’s “Project Runway”
this season. Kardashian, Usmagazine.
com notes, owns a clothing store and
has designed for both Sears and QVC.
“Project Runway’s” ninth season premieres on July 28. Michael Kors, Nina
Garcia, Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn are all
returning. (EXPRESS)

Michael Lohan is unhappy that Lindsay Lohan tested positive for alcohol, even though she did
not violate her probation. “Regardless of
whether she gets tested on not under
home arrest any drinking at all is not
good for Lindsay,” he told Radaronline.
com. Of the friends his daughter has been
entertaining at her home, Lohan said,
“they’re just not good people.” (E XPRESS)

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